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Early on in the pandemic, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak was adamant that there would be no bail-outs for firms which had other options. Virgin Atlantic and other supplicants seeking funds were told to exhaust all possibilities, including rich proprietors. The wealthy backer for Britain’s top-ranked engineering and aerospace firms BAE and Rolls-Royce is HMG. It … Read more

Will we really see negative interest rates or would they prove pointless? asks SIMON LAMBERT By Simon Lambert for Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 06:00 BST, 15 October 2020 | Updated: 06:00 BST, 15 October 2020 Are we really going to get negative interest rates in Britain? This will we, won’t we game has been going on for … Read more

Enter the age of penury: The central bank money printing binge could end in tears, says ALEX BRUMMER By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:53 BST, 14 October 2020 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 14 October 2020 Ten days ago Rishi Sunak made his bow towards past Tory values by reminding the nation it … Read more

The annual gathering of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) without the cacophony of voices heard when you bring together financial officials, economists and bankers in one place cannot be re-created online. It is the focused conversations in and around the IMF/World Bank meetings which make them the Wimbledon of global finance. After the collective misery … Read more

Steve Cochrane, a 61-year-old father of three boys, founded fashion retailer Psyche in Middlesbrough in 1982.  His wife Alex, 40, works in the business as a secretary and a buyer.  Psyche won Drapers Menswear Retailer of the Year 2018/19, and Steve was awarded the MBE in 2018 for services to the economy and regeneration in … Read more

Your reaction to our story on poor customer service during the pandemic was loud and clear. There is no reason for companies to be treating their customers so poorly. And now no excuse for forcing shoppers to wait weeks, or even months, for answers or money back. Money Mail’s postbag was stuffed with letters from … Read more

As if negative interest rates are not difficult enough to explain to borrowers and savers in their own right, the Bank of England has made the issue even more complicated with its own zig-zags. From the start of the pandemic, Andrew Bailey, in his first fraught year as governor, has made it clear he wants … Read more

Caring about climate change used to be the preserve of the sandals brigade, then it became woke, now, it’s big business. Whether or not you personally subscribe to the science of global warming is largely irrelevant. The UK government has subscribed to it, signing up to the Paris Agreement and going a step further, committing … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: The trouble with shareholder primacy is that investors tend to tolerate bad behaviour so long as it seems lucrative American economist Milton Friedman was a huge influence on the thinking of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan  Even Gordon Gekko’s ‘Greed is Good’ mantra is a simplistic interpretation of his theory By Ruth Sunderland … Read more